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Pirate Parties On Course for Historic Election Wins

The popularity of the Pirate Party in Germany is soaring to unprecedented heights. In a recent poll the Party received 13% of the total vote, which makes it the third largest party in the country for the first time. In neighboring Austria, citizens are also warming to the Pirate Party agenda. With 7% of the total vote, the Austrian Pirate Party has a serious shot at entering the national parliament.

german pp logoFounded in September 2006, the German Pirate Party has already booked several successes in its relatively short existence.

The Party currently has dozens of members in elected offices across Germany, which is more than in all other countries combined. Most notable is the unprecedented win in the elections for the Berlin state parliament last summer, where the Pirates got 9 percent of the vote.

Continuing this success the Party is now conquering the rest of Germany. For the first time in its history the Pirate Party is now virtually the third largest party in Germany, achieving 13% of the total vote in a recent poll.

The Pirate Party surpassed the Green Party, which peaked at 11%.

In common with all other Pirate Parties across the world, the German Pirate Party’s policy focuses around three pillars; shared culture, free knowledge, and fundamental privacy. Based on recent poll results, these key points appeal to a wide audience.

While the results of the polls are promising, there is still a long way to go. The next federal elections are held late 2013, more than a year away.

austrian pp logoThe success of the German Pirates is mimicked by their neighbors in Austria, where the local Pirate Party got 7% of all votes in a recent poll.

Illustrating that the Pirates are not a fringe group, 22% of the respondents said they could see themselves voting for the Party in the coming elections.

The coming months will be crucial for both parties, as they have to keep the momentum going towards the new elections. Being in the spotlight is great for as long as there’s good news to sell.

Times can change quickly as we’ve seen in Sweden, where support for the local Pirate Party plunged a year after the European elections, resulting in a failed election bid in 2010.

Time will tell whether Europe is ready for the Pirates now.


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  • hihi

    hells to the yes

  • yo98

    Probably wont be long till the pirate parties are labelled a “terrorist org” in the states though :(

    • FUCK

      -Little escapes the eyes of USA Rangers. If you continue to work with Piraten Partei, the USA will brand you a terrorist.

      • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

        Not quite. If they tried, they would have to prove in court that these people are violent terrorists.

        The hyperbole about the “United States will do X” is getting old….. redirect some of that vitriol towards Russia.

        • FUCK

          You didnt get the pun

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OK7Y7PCSTJ27RCKZ2MGRSAYCTE NEIL

          No they don’t actually – once the “war” on terror was declared the rules changed civil liberties and other historic freedoms are sidelined in a state of declared war – why do you think the USA administration has been continuously using that as their excuse for everything they’ve done so far in the middle east? Russia have done what internationally in recent times?

        • Anonymous

          C’mon Christopher!! Like they have done with all the other terrorist branding they have done in the past?? It is HOLLYWOOD, based in the United States, pulling all the strings here. Sure the rhetoric might be old, but it’s TRUE!

          Why redirect when it is the United States imposing their rules on the world??? The gov’t is so corrupt, they don’t even try to hide it any more.

        • Guest

          Save that Russia does not pretend to have a great gov respectful of the human right unlike the US gov.

        • Guest

          “Russia have done what internationally in recent times?”

          Oh, Nothing, nothing at all in Chesnia.

        • Sliuszdfhfg

          just like they proved in a court that Bin laden was a terrorist or the way they said if we don’t join them in their fight against terror then we are branded as the enemy or even terrorists.. don’t you love the way they use the courts
          pffftttt yer rite!!!!!!

        • Anonymous

          You have completely forgotten about what the president can do post 9/11

      • Vkyi

        I wonder when will media start branding the US as a terrorist country

        • Guest

          USA is the media

      • Lethn

        +1 for New Vegas comment……

        I used to be a poster like you…. Then I took an arrow to the knee

        • Anonymous

          what is up with the knee arrow stuff?

        • PLP

          @AJH it’s a meme, nothing else.

        • FUCK

          lulz

        • Nope

          Please kill yourself.

    • T Schwarz

      If you are right that mean more then half wolrd is “terrorist ”
      In fact USA is 1 st the terrorist of the world , they kill they invade they distroy everything for money , they spy hole world they break any laws (human rights international laws and even US constitution ) they bribe other goverments to buy and put in jail citizens , that is democracy and freedom ” WTF?
      VOTE AND SUPPORT PIRATE PARY EVERYWHERE ! IF THEY WILL WIN ALL USA SHIT WILL BE GONE !
      In Europe more and more people become pirate party people so stay away US fuckers
      If USA will label Pirate Party people like a terrorist then only thing what Pirate Party can do is WAR to destroy this shit toilet call USA .
      USA people who thing what thier country doing is wrong can emigrate , is the best choice , soon ofr later sombody will destroy USA , becouse too many people hate USA and more come day by they , what USA will do when large masses of other countries will vote to attack USA , when nuclear powers like China , Russia , Iran , North Coreea and others will decide is enough US shit , how do you think US people your country will protecting you from others anger ? You dont have any protection becouse US gov doesnt care about you about people , you are just tools in their hands , and when a war will start you willl be send in first line of front to die in the name of “democracy, freedom ” , they just already prepare FEMA death capms for you
      What the f..k country can be that when dont give a shit about their citizens ? And they say are “civilized” ! You all are free to die ! LOL

      GO PP GERMAN GO ! If USA will continue im shure the WW3 will start and im very shure USA will be erased , tottaly destroyed , why ? is simple look around , ask people more and more hate USA , and are pissed off with thier arrogance , they must understand they are NOT owners of this wolrd !

      Pirate Party you have my vote and my friends votes too !
      Bye bye USA we will never respect your laws , we will never buy any your shit products , we will boycott till you disapear , we will choose our products even some are less good , but our money will never helping you to grow , if more and more people will do the same then your ending is closer
      DEATH FOR USA !

      • PLP

        Yep, you’re right, US is the biggest terrorist in the history.
        If someone is against that government, then it will suffer.
        Even its own people.

      • Snellva

        First and foremost learn English if you are going to use it. Second, the USA doesn’t own anything, the rich people own everything. If it so happens that some of the richest people live in America, there is probably a reason for that. Power is where the money is, and the money is in the US at the moment, so guess what in the mean time you can “suck it”. Sucks to be your country but to bad. You’ll live another day to bitch all you want. Simply put Power=Money, USA= Cash cow, therefor at the moment USA=Power.

    • Anonymous

      you know the rules in the US. if something cant be beaten or forced to stop by threats, simply because some old fart doesn’t like it, they criminalize it, seize all the assets and shut it down! now what does that remind me of, i wonder??

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  • Anonymous

    where do I sign up?

  • Phil Landry

    Dies ist eine wunderbare nachricht! Die germanische welt wird uns eine lektion in sachen demokratie!

  • http://twitter.com/zeronegativ it’s /me
  • Benedikt Schmidt

    the pirate party can be the worldwide institution for anti-censorship, anti data retention bullshit and anti 1984 stylish laws at all. Let’s go for it! For more freedom of speech, more transparency in politics , real politicians and allowed encryption of private data. Not to forget the pirate parties saved wikileaks against censorship. Choose your side! greetings from germany :)

  • Anonymous

    Just some random numbers and letters.

    BDB2872946BE659FA372B5E628252DFB00D1E8E2
    7A383D6BC3859AA84B5882DE961EF98100BA8040
    A692F57965D82734ED03197A1545FE68E554D0C2
    A08236364057BDBB5AF80F8A366BAD2214153400
    FE204AD17B3AD77C1BED430EF4A84FDFE711BE62
    24D07D7050CA3FB00AF55752CEC597D7B1731058
    938802790A385C49307F34CCA4C30F80B03DF59C

    • Truth

      the last one made me laugh out loud, brilliant.

      • sf

        what does the last one mean? searched mininova got no results

        • Guest

          They are torrent hashes in TPB.

    • Axel R

      Hmm a decoded message for the terrorists

      ;-)

    • http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee

      LOL GG

    • PLP

      Newclear, you’re a criminal! But you know, those are not my words.

    • Desu75

      Prepare for you butt ramming.

  • PiratePartyAZ

    Follow these pirate parties on twitter!! A birdy told me there is a US Pirate Party meeting on IRC tonight.

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  • Anonymous

    GO GO PIRATE PARTY !!

  • Guest

    I’d like to see a pirate in the white house =P pirate party is more descriptive than “independent” and stands for stuff that I’m behind. I can’t wait for the movement to catch on over here.

  • https://thepiratebay.org/user/manOtor/ manOtor

    You can say what you want about Germany:
    But it looks like a majority of the people shows the world that they have developed some common sense.
    Kudos for that!
    I just hope they’ll manage to keep on track until 2013 to win their place in the German government and be a real pain in the ass for the US ;)!

    • Guest

      as a US citizen, I second that. if only to be a pain to the majors

    • http://twitter.com/Magi1983 Martin Gillich

      I am pretty sure, we will get into the Bundestag (parliament), but that doesn’t automatically make us part of the government ;)

      However elections to the European Parliament in 2014 should be even more important for the pirate movement as a whole, so it can proove not only to be a national oddity, but rather succesfull at the international level.

      • DarthSauig

        In the US, government is the word for the ruling party, the opposition, as well as the executive and the juricative branch (whereas in Europe it is only the name for the ruling majority in parliament and executive).

        • me

          Actually government in Europe is only the name of the executive, and nothing more. Even the majority in the legislative isn’t part of the government.

    • Anonymous

      Germany learned all the right lessons from the second world war and the cold war. The german citizenry has The Wall in fresh memory – and are rather well inoculated against the cheap “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” rhethoric which many other european nations are gobbling up eagerly.

      Two generations down the road that may change. Hopefully though, they will keep this impetus going. The German minister of Justice has performed splendidly in sending the data retention directive and other disgusting anti-civil liberty legislation to their constitutional court. While Sweden’s minister of justice doesn’t see anything fundamentally wrong with reversing “burden of proof”…

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    Let’s go for it! For more freedom of speech, more transparency in politics , real politicians and allowed encryption of private data.

    http://goo.gl/AKckK

  • Techanon

    I can only say one thing on this: ARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/Magi1983 Martin Gillich

    What you left out in that article is that the pirate party got 7.4 % of the votes in the state level elections of Saarland/Germany, thus getting 4 seats of the 51 seats counting state parliament.

    • Anonymous

      And 9% in Berlin – so we are already in representation on a state level.

      Makes me want to move to germany. Sweden has gone fully down the road of abolishing personal privacy for the citizenry.

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  • Guest

    If those numbers hold up, the Pirate Party will likely be a part of the next German government. Chancellor Merkel’s CDU/CSU isn’t going to get a majority on its own and it is uncertain whether their partners the FDP will even get 5%. On the other side, the Social Democrats and the Greens aren’t likely to win a majority and they won’t go into a coalition with the Communist Party (its called something different now, but it is the same party that used to run the state of East Germany).

    That means that there are 3 potential outcomes of the German election. Either another “Grand Coalition” between Merkel’s party and the Social Democrats, a Merkel/Pirate/FDP coalition (if the FDP gets at least 5%) or a Social Democrat/Green/Pirate coalition. The best strategy for Pirate Parties is to adopt no firm positions on issues unrelated to the core issues, especially since there are good pro-piracy arguments on both sides of the political spectrum and because they need to be able to play both sides to see which will give them the most concessions.

    For decades in Germany, the FDP were kingmakers in German politics and their leaders basically controlled the German equivalent of (the American office of) Secretary of State for decades until the Greens came along. It looks like the Pirate Party will be the kingmakers in German politics in the 21st century, if they play their cards right.

    In the United States, we need to use a different strategy. The 2 party system is deeply entrenched in our country and will remain so due to the nature of our political system (the Electoral College and the usage of First-Past-the-Post for everything). That means that the only way to bring about change in American politics is to work within one of the 2 political parties. The goal here is to get at least some of your ideas co-opted by one of the major political parties by showing that they have a broad appeal and can potentially help grow that party. Of the 2 parties in America, I’d speculate that the Republicans are probably more likely to go in a pro-piracy direction (social conservatives don’t like Hollywood or the music industry very much due to their perceived liberal bias and the Ron Paul activists believe very strongly in transparency), but either party could potentially be turned in that direction (we should aim to turn both, actually). The idea should be to run candidates who largely fit in with their party, but happen to be pro-piracy (we need to find a way of signaling this through codewords that we would understand, but would make sure that the RIAA/MPAA don’t catch onto us too quickly) and for the rest of us to vote for those candidates in primaries. Just don’t expect to win everything we want in the first election cycle because politics is a long-term battle and anybody who wants to get involved on behalf of a cause needs to recognize that.

    Niche political parties don’t work in the United States. They do work in most other countries. In countries that are friendly toward new political parties, Pirate Parties are a good idea. In countries where 2 established parties are entrenched basically permanently, we need to infiltrate and change from within those parties.

    • http://twitter.com/Magi1983 Martin Gillich

      A CDU/FDP/Pirates coalition isn’t going to happen since the German Pirate Party does already have firm positions on other issues (family policy, social policy).

      • Anonymous

        Broadening the platform in exchange for giving up the ability to tip the scales…yes, I can see that actually being a winner when it comes to entering the bundestag.

  • Anon

    ROFLMAO and in tears at the Pirate Party poster.

    ARRRRRR

  • Anonymous

    As long as the MPAA and their co-conspirators will keep pushing for international laws that states that they have the right to use Government Agencies to perform their work, these political parties will rise like a dough on steroids. Go PP!

  • PRIVACY is priceless to me

    The nazis are back!
    The PP won’t change anything, to the contrary, they’d inforce the capitalist tyranny.

    • Anonymous

      Feel free to tell us all just HOW we’ll be enforcing the capitalist tyranny. Because as a pirate party member, I do not recognize that particular point from the party program…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Dilly/1624894683 Don Dilly

    When they finally get into power the first thing they should do is Charge a Mr M Mouse of Florida with cultural terrorism and seek his extradition from the USA and refuse any further applications from the USA until they comply.

  • Jeff

    The privacy pillar is becoming more and more important these days, the world needs a pirate party more than ever.

  • Anonymous

    ‘in Sweden, support for the local Pirate Party plunged a year after the European elections, resulting in a failed election bid in 2010.’

    and look at what Sweden has become since then. it is certainly no longer a country where privacy, citizens rights and human rights are priorities. nothing seems to be more important there than upholding copyright and penalizing/punishing people for ‘file sharing’

    with more and more countries being threatened by the US if they dont ‘toe the line’, it is imperative the Pirate Party continue their fight. stopping government surveillance and the destruction of personal privacy, especially in the name of ‘copyright protection’ (what a fucking joke!) has to be fought seriously and very hard, everywhere!

    seems so strange that Germany is the country that is leading this fight for freedom of speech etc, considering what has happened there in the distant past. i hope many other countries follow their lead. well done to all!!!

    • Anonymous

      There is nothing strange about Germany being the country leading this fight. Some twenty years ago I attended a german grade school as a kid. We learned about the Third Reich and Hitler’s road to power. How it could happen. How people allowed it. And the results. Every german today in his 40′s learned as a child the danger which comes from too strong government.

      And as a double whammy they all remember The Wall and the DDR.

      Germany learned all the right lessons from WW2 and the Cold War. That is why in similar vein the EU’s mass surveillance laws have stronjg opposition in old east bloc countries as well.

      The “free west” which have been able to sit out every democratic crisis in relative peace are the ones who have no clue as to what they are doing, with their citizenry persuaded that powers of mass surveillance will never be abused by their “good” government.

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  • My

    It will be interesting to see if this whole democracy thing still works, huh?

    Looks like it may be ready to go to the test!!!!

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  • Burrito

    I’m not seeing much in the old media (news channels) about it here in England.. As with the campaign against ACTA, it seems most of the PPI’s campaigning is going on in the non-Anglophone part of Europe.

  • Mwhahaha

    ” the Pirate Party is now virtually the third largest party ”

    So is it the fourth largest in reality?

    Give us facts not hyperbole.

  • Mwhahaha

    It’s a nice dream, but in reality it will never get beyond a fringe party. The pirate party is basically an interest group. They have strong policy in one or two areas and nothing else. The comparison to the Greens is about right, because they’re a similar kind of party.

    On say, drug manufacture or privacy, they’d have great policy ideas. What about crime? the environment? The economy? The armed forces? International issues? I’m not saying they’d do worse at these than current politicians, I’m just saying without real knowledge and perceived capability in these areas they are, at best, a protest vote against how things are at the moment.

    The current big issue in the whole of western society is the economy and the job market. Austerity measures and the need for growth. That is the number one topic a politician of any party would be asked about at any front door. Do they have *any* policy in this area? If not then how do they expect to grow their membership to a wider demographic? They appeal to young disenfranchised, idealistic and mainly less well off voters I’d imagine. (Is there any voter breakdown figures available?) This section of voters is notoriously bad at voting and if they become more monied their voting switches to a more conservative party.

    If you look in the UK the Liberal Democrats have mutated and shifted, grown and shrunk and grown again, and been around for decades in one form or another. They used to offer liberal-free speech type arguments to voters. They’ve been a distant third in every election in their current guise. Yes they get some seats. Even now they’re in a ruling coalition they don’t have the numbers to actually influence any policy. They’re a conscience or a protest vote. And last time they were a wasted vote. The treacherous bastards….

    I’d love the pirate party to make a difference, and hopefully it is going to influence other parties’ policies, but for them to get any real power they need to move past existence as a protest vote and show more rounded policy ideas. I’d vote for them every time. But then again I voted for the Liberals last time and look where that got us all…

    Still, fingers crossed eh?

    • Anonymous

      “The comparison to the Greens is about right, because they’re a similar kind of party.”

      Every political party started out the same. Go back to the beginning of every political party currently incumbent and you’ll find it started as a protest movement with a narrow agenda. The Greens? Yes, but in Europe they are across the board very well represented in national government.

      Once a protest movement gains acceptance and becomes an incumbent the agenda naturally broadens. Rick Falkvinge has written about this and the danger that the Pirate Party, once in government, will unavoidably start sliding the same way the currently established parties have.

      At which time, he states, when 40 years down the road some young hotheads with a narrow agenda start demanding impossibilities and real world politics – we should remember to help them.

  • Anonymous

    Great News !! And for those in the EU rise up and Vote this Party in all the Countries and your EU Government.
    We should all do the same here.Seems like if we keep Voting for Dems and Reps we will just get screwed over either way.
    I want to see the Pirate Party here in my State Of Maine.Please open up a Chapter.I will do all I can to help you if you do.And I can get at least a hundred people involved as my guitarist Skummyman and I are the oldest Original Maine Punk Rockers who still does Music.

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  • Gae

    When a major countries 3rd biggest political party comes to exist because of the actions of a few entertainment companies, then if you are in charge at those companies then don’t you think that just maybe somewhere you are doing something wrong?

    • Anonymous

      Well, Big Oil had to reconsider their business model extensively when the Green parties came into power.

      Of course, Big Oil tends to deal in realities and real-world logistics. They use common sense or they perish.

      The MPAA/RIAA on the other hand, do NOT live in reality. they live in a fantasy paradigm of their own making which they have unfortunately to some degree gotten written into common law.

      They will change only when the first government hands them a whopping smackdown.

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    The Green Party and the Pirate Party should form on large organization.

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    Here’s a little info about what happened to the UK Green Party during the 1980s (pre-internet). The Green Party was achieving great poll results and seemed to be heading to having some seats in Parliament. They were approached by a well-klnown TV presenter David Icke who joined the party. Seeing an opportunity to put in place an already known personality they made him leader of the party. Just as the election approached David Icke announced he was god and many other crazy things. They had been set up using the oldest political trick in the book. Find a member of the establishment with a high profile and place them in a postion of power in your enemies rank and then at a suitable time use them to discredit your enemy. He’s still around since once committed to this devious plan – he now has to follow it to the end of his life. I’m sure David Icke has been handsomely rewarded and his children have had doors opened for them.

    So to the pirate parties watch out for this one.

    PS. David Icke has a website where you can read the fake insane stuff posted by a very sane and politically vicious personality.

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